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Candied Ginger
Ingredients 1 pound peeled and sliced ginger, preferably young/smaller roots, sliced about 1/8 inch thick (by hand or use a mandolin -...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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Onion Confit for Tartelettes
something like a onion jam Ingredients 300 gm of sliced onions 2 tablespoons of grape seed oil 2/3 cup of red wine 40 gm of white sugar...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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Tartelette with Onion Confit
Ingredients Onion Confit (recipe under Onion Confit ) 1 puff pastry /flaky pastry - you can make your own or buy from supermarket Fresh...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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Baked Sausage Roll ring
Ingredients Hot dog Sausages Sheet of rectangular flaky pastry (either made at home or shop bought) Either a tin of baked beans Or...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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Cocktail Sausages
Ingredients 100g ginger conserve 100g wholegrain mustard 15ml tablespoon garlic oil 15ml tablespoon soy sauce 50 cocktail sausages 1...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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Chili Jam
To be eaten with cold meats or cheese platter - Makes approx. 1.5. Litres - Great gift idea Chili Jam Ingredients 150g long fresh red...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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Nectarine and Pineapple Chutney
Ingredients 8 nectarines Use Ripe & Half Ripe Boiling water Fresh Pineapple or a Tin of Pineapple Rings 2 3 /4 cups of sugar. 1 1/2 cups...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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Base for Pickle/Chutney
This is a Sri Lankan specialty, a meal is not complete without a spoonful of this tasty sweet and spicy pickle (Malay) made with...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 8, 20202 min read
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Who likes to Fly?
Made a green and pink colour two layered melt in the mouth sponge cake for a first birthday, covered with green butter cream icing and...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 3, 20201 min read
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Strawberry Delight
Soft Chocolate cake, covered with chocolate butter cream icing, chocolate sticks around the cake and fresh strawberries placed on top....

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 3, 20201 min read
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Chocolate Cake -method 1
recipe given by my sister Kissan Wijetunge Ingredients 250 g all-purpose flour 330g caster sugar 1 cup milk 3 eggs 225 g butter ½ cup...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 29, 20201 min read
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Biscuit recipe
Ingredients 4 oz butter 4 oz sugar 1 egg 8 oz flour 1 tsp baking powder A few drops of vanilla A little milk Caster sugar to dredge...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 28, 20201 min read
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Chocolate Smartie Cookies makes approx. 50 cookies
Ingredients 100 g butter, softened 80 g of sugar 1 pinch of salt 1 fresh egg 80 g chocolate powder 200 g of flour About 340 g Smarties A...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 28, 20201 min read
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Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients 1/2 pound unsalted butter 1 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 2 extra-large...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 28, 20201 min read
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Coffee Ice Cream
Makes about 1 1/2 quarts Ingredients 4 cups (2 pts.) half ¬and ¬half or light cream 1 (14 oz.) can Nestle Milkmaid Ice Coffee mix...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 28, 20201 min read
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Strawberry Meringue Ice Cream
– with preparation method in my automatic ice cream maker – Ingredients 250 g fresh Strawberries 150g of Icing sugar 2 tsp of Lime juice...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 28, 20201 min read
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Vanilla Ice Cream (no cooking and no eggs required)
Ingredients 4 Cups half and half cream 1/2 cup heavy cream 3/4 cups white sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 pinch salt You would need:...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 26, 20201 min read
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Iced Coffee for a Party
Recipe from my late BIL Nilhan De Silva Ingredients 100 gm Nescafe 1 pint boiling water 4 tins condensed milk small size 15 tins water...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 24, 20201 min read
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Iced Coffee
Iced Coffee - this makes around 10 glasses Ingredients 1 tin small condensed milk 2 tablespoons sugar 1.5 tins iced water (measured from...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 24, 20201 min read
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Like Gardening?? Flower Pot cake
I made two 2 x 6 inch moist chocolate cakes, sandwich together with chocolate butter cream icing and then shaved the cake in the shape...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 24, 20201 min read
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Carrot Cake with Brandy Butter
Ingredients 2 cups sugar 1 1/3 cups vegetable oil 3 large eggs, at room temperature 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 2 cups plus 1...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 7, 20202 min read
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Butter Cake - Method 1
Ingredients 250 gm butter 250 gm sugar 250 gm self-raising flour 2 tsp baking powder 4 eggs 2 tsp milk 2 tsp vanilla Method Set oven to...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 7, 20201 min read
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